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I admit I ran into Joan yesterday and asked about turnips. I did this purely so I could record it in my schedule book. They were 107. I had no intention of buying. This week turnip prices started off at 136, so I think it’s going to be a random week.

Time Sink

I’m still working on cataloging items. I’m under 200 now—at the time of this post I need 177 items in Vella’s catalog (not counting gyroids or stationery), so making slow, steady progress. But ordering items in one language for a game in another language is not an easy feat and mostly involves copious amounts of scrolling, so I haven’t been doing too much else. If I stop ordering now I doubt I’ll ever finish.

One thing I have found in attempting to order for Vella: I’m missing a few things with Yumi! Eek! Does anyone out there have:

blue tartan tee

festive candle (the menorah)

I would love to trade…whatever… for them. I hope I don’t come across any other anomalies, but I probably will.

Winter Games

Ok, saying all I’ve done is order things is a bit of an exaggeration, but it does take up a lot of time. I also went on a snowflake hunt to complete the ice set. This mostly consisted of running from one beach to the other hoping to find snowflakes along the way. On my way down to the beach one time I saw O’Hare struggling to free himself from a pitfall trap (gotta put those somewhere. I thought it was out of the way…) I couldn’t help him, so I snapped a picture instead.

I did eventually catch enough snowflakes to complete the ice set. I’m still halfheartedly catching 3 at a time because I’d like an extra ice lamp. Snowmam will be gone tomorrow though, so I doubt I’ll get one.

Which means: Bingo is ON! And those snowmen are trolling me.

I did eventually get a bingo which earned me a bobsled. Still trying. Yumi’s bingo numbers have been largely useless to me and vice versa. I haven’t tried rolling snowmen in Quantico every day too. I just can’t do three towns at once.

so many more to go

Today in Hanabi

Since I got that cataloging badge (but I’m still trying to catalog) I haven’t made much progress on other badges. Nevertheless I thought I must be close to the silver visiting badge since I visit Kasen at least once a day, but usually more. So, while I was doing flash cards (learning a language is so glamorous) I opened Kasen and had Vella go back and forth back and forth with megaphone in hand. When she returned to Hanabi I would shout “Phineas” and was usually greeted by Felicity…

But at last I shouted “Phineas” and he responded. I rushed over to get my World Traveler badge.

I really do need to get out more. Anyone wanna invite me over?

This is a lie. If the badge guide is to believed I know exactly how many times I’ve traveled to other towns: 250.

I have 4 bronze badges left:

bug catching

fish catching

weeding

dreaming

I’ve gone to the island at night a little lately to catch bugs and fish. I’ve made no progress on weeding. Yumi doesn’t have that badge at all, so when Quantico gets overrun by weeds I’ve been letting her pick them over there. Maybe after the winter when I don’t have to chase snowballs I’ll take Hanabi off of perfect town and try and weed daily. And I haven’t dreamed lately either. I have a big list of towns to visit, I just haven’t gotten around to dreaming yet. I’m sure you’ll know when I do.

I have 9 silver badges. The rest are gold.

diving critters

balloon popping

island medals

saving

letter writing

street pass

visiting other towns

hosting

play time

I should just pick one and try for it. According to my log I have 570 hours or something with Animal Crossing. I can’t imagine much of it was spent with other characters. And I doubt I’ve reset that much, so I should get that badge any time now I think.

I have no control over streetpass, but I get at least 2 a day with Quantico and Kasen. Kokuto shut off his AC street pass after we got back from Japan to keep his Japanese houses. I doubt I can persuade him to turn it back on so I can get 3 a day. 😉

Need to visit 250 towns for gold. Ugh. Anyone want to have me over?

Need to host around 250 people for gold. Should I open up weekly again?

I think once I finish cataloging I’ll have more will to write 100 letters.

I could get the saving badge pretty easily. It would just take time transferring money from Yumi’s account. But she would be very nearly broke after that.

Island medals will take forever. Maybe I should host a weekly tour group?

Balloon popping. I don’t see that many balloons. Probably because I’m busy doing other things while I play, but whenever I do I drop everything to shoot it down. Does anyone have tips for finding them more frequently?

catching diving creatures. Just need to do it. Maybe go on another scallop hunt for more pirate goods. I do miss Pascal.

Badges are kind of tedious and sort of take the fun out of the game if you try to hard to get them. Nevertheless I feel compelled to get them…

Redd

It was statue day at Redd’s Gallery. I bought the beautiful statue because it was the only real one. Any takers?

Misc.

Shep lost it. We may need to see if we can get him some therapy.

P.S. I received a US copy of Animal Crossing New Leaf from Nintendo. Thanks, Nintendo!

I think my week off from blogging about Hanabi could be summed up quite easily: It snowed. I swear it snowed pretty much every day with brief intervals of heavy clouds and then more snow. I didn’t do too much last week, but here are the highlights.

Jingle of Course

Jingle’s first visit to Hanabi was a resounding success, but only because I saved and continued before delivering a couple presents. I thought I had enough info, but it turns out I didn’t. I didn’t know what color a couple things were, like the mini lamp. I thought it might have been white, but it’s gray, so I got Julian’s initial delivery wrong. Eep! And figuring out the color of the two wallpaper I had in my bag wasn’t easy either. In the end everyone got what they wanted. Jingle gave me a wreath and then sent me his picture in the mail.

I started a picture room in the museum. I’m running out of room for them in my house.

Snow-person building

I built my last hideous Frankenstein-like snow family where everyone except snowtyke was horribly misshapen. As a reward I got a sleigh. Now I’m on to building exquisite snowboys for the snowman set.

Yes you are! Next to your perfect little brother. 🙂

Note: 3 perfect snowboys pictured. Smug mode.

I had Saharah

I don’t know what look she’s going for.

I needed a lot of Saharah originals for Vella’s catalog so I let her remake the room…much to my dismay. Instead I took Vella over to Kasen yesterday and she cataloged all of Taiga’s Saharah set. Much easier.

I had Redd

I had Redd on Thursday last week, and he’s in town today. I didn’t need either of the paintings I bought. Last weeks was the neutral painting and this week’s is the wistful painting (Girl with a Pearl Earring)

I Managed to Unload My Turnips

Kasen had decent prices. I think 211? I didn’t wait to see if they would spike higher, I just sold. I was hoping maybe that would get me the gold turnip badge, but ever since I sold there hasn’t been a clear day in town, so no Phineas.

This week I only bought 900 turnips because I was feeling lazy.

Kadomatsu

I wasn’t expecting a delivery from Nintendo. They sent out Kadomatsu which are traditional Japanese New Year’s decorations. Seems a little weird sending it to the English games when no one knows what they are, but I was happy to get it and let Yumi catalog it anyway.

Sheldon Decided to Move

And I said “Go for It!” If only he had decided to leave sooner though because I had the most awesome camper that day.

He’s still up for grabs if anyone wants him.

I’m just gonna stick you in my closet and you can move in on the 2nd ok? OMG you’re so cute!

He does this to me every day. He sighs and then tells me about his moving out. It’s taking all my willpower to make him go.

Tomorrow is the New Year’s Eve countdown. I’ll be opening up Kasen (my Japanese town) from 10am-noon PST (GMT-8) so you can grab some Year-End Noodles. If you can’t make it at that time but you can later on in the day let me know and I might open up again in the afternoon. I’ll leave out the Sagittarius Bow and the Capricorn Ornament to catalog. I don’t know if European ACNL players got the Kadomatsu? I’ll try and put that out as well. And now I’ve got to go do some 大掃除 (oh-soh-ji) big cleaning in Kasen so the town is up to snuff for visitors. 🙂

良いお年を！ Happy New Year!

P.S. I received a US copy of Animal Crossing New Leaf from Nintendo. Thanks, Nintendo!

I’m ignoring the stalk market

I haven’t bothered checking. Maybe next week I’ll buy if Joan has prices under 100.

Me too. I got an advent calendar this year!

December Catch

Until the snow sticks and I can hunt the dung beetle all I need to catch for December is a stringfish. I thought it would be quite elusive and would keep me busy for a good chunk of time. Not so. I saw a giant shadow in the river late one afternoon and I hauled it out.

Vella prefers her quantum theory stringy and not loopy.

Even though the stringfish was the last fish I needed for my encyclopedia, Blathers was not impressed with my donation because I still need one diving creature the giant spider crab which comes out in March.

GIMME a Badge!

Blathers may not have been proud of me, but shortly after visiting the museum I ran into Phineas—who was.

A Visiting I go

I made it to my appointment with Tia the other day despite the strange time. I visited Julian at the appointed time and purchased his fire hydrant to get it out of his house (I really need to send him better furniture). Still, neither have shown any indication of warming up to me and giving me their pictures. I’ll win them over eventually.

Toy Day Cometh

My Toy Day list is growing. After playing a bit more it seems that townies tell human residents the same things, so I don’t need to keep more than one list. Whew. Here’s what I know so far:

Felicity: yellow umbrella

Shep: doll (weirdo)

Octavian: plant

Barold: lamp

Tia: red furniture

Julian: gray

Sheldon: ?

Rooney: ?

Soleil: furniture

O’Hare: ?

Despite talking to people multiple times today, no one wanted to spill anything about Christmas.

And to get me into the holiday spirit I had Yumi order Christmas furniture for Olive and she decorated her front room in garish Christmas fashion. I forgot to order the giant Christmas tree…

Redd’s Forgeries

Redd was in town today. He actually had two real paintings. I don’t need either of them. Anyone out there need them?

moody painting. I think I have 2 of these now. There’s no fake.

moving painting. I double checked. This one’s real.

Dream On

Remember how I said I was trying to dream of ACUKE members’ towns a week or so ago, but only got to one? Well, I’m getting back on track now that my (wretched) test is over. Here are pics from a few of the towns I’ve visited. Hi ACUKErs. 😉

The paths and houses look delicious.

I like the bridge right by the waterfall. I wonder if I have room for one in Kasen…

The dreamy town of Ci’gazze where I forgot to take a picture of the sign: 7800-2132-5593

I don’t have that stump! I love the shrubbery all around. It’s nicely done.

Harvest Festival

Have I really not blogged about the Harvest Festival yet? After the long weekend it seems like it was eons ago and yet went on forever because I did it twice on different days for JP and US games rather than trying to do it all in one day. It was tedious at best. I never did end up needing the scallop this year, but I was happy I had a red snapper.

I’m with Julian on this one.

It’s a wonder he isn’t 300 pounds. He’s always eating.

Here’s a (horrible) gif of my Harvest Festival experience. Note that I took one for the team to make that cherry pie.

I wanted to get another set of ingredients for Yumi to use as she pleased, but I only ended up with an extra milk and flour. All my townies seemed to want to give me fruit and mushrooms that I already had. And what’s up with their need for barbel steeds? Regardless I made a fabulous dinner, got my fruit basket and cornucopia and generally saved the day. Go super cooker Vella!

Maybe he’s bulimic?

Holiday Aftermath

The few days following the Harvest Festival were largely uneventful. I had Redd on Friday, but he didn’t have anything I needed for Kasen.

should be looking over shoulder. fake.

Wrong color headband. fake.

Real, but don’t need. I bought it anyway. I’m a sucker for the arts.

person in white is on the wrong side. Fake.

Julian also sold/gave Locke a worthy painting, so I have an extra of those as well.

It snowed on and off on Saturday. Tia wanted a Coelacanth. But by the time I decided I would try and grant her request it had stopped snowing. Now she probably hates me. Shep is talking in innuendos to Locke. I’m not sure what to make of it…

Happy Birthday Rooney!

December 1st finally rolled around. The start of the month was the day of my big test (which I may or may not have passed—I’m not hopeful—but won’t know until February), and also Rooney’s birthday. I had a few presents ordered ahead of time so I wouldn’t have to worry about it. I visited Rooney while sitting in the hallway of the humanities building at San Francisco State University waiting to be let into my exam room. Vella gave him a Big Bro’s tee and Locke gave him a barbecue. He loved both of them. As an afterthought I had Olive visit him too with an unwrapped hamster cage. He wasn’t too keen on that.

I love his confidence in my gift giving ability.

Backwards stink-eye. Must be nice to birthday kangaroo.

At least he was nice about the Hamster Cage…

Naughty or Nice Day?

Are any of my EU friends going to be open for Naughty or Nice day on December 6? I’d really love to get my hands on the Holiday Stocking. 🙂 I can bring presents such as the new Sagittarius Bow DLC from Japan.

Toy Day Approaches

December first also seems to be the start of everyone’s musings about Toy Day. My advice: pay attention. Write down what the townies say they want. On Toy Day you’ll have to deliver a sack of gifts to your townies based on what they said they wanted throughout the month.

One thing I’m not clear on, do townies want the same thing from different characters? I only had one character when I played it last year, but I’ve been playing both Locke and Vella a lot in Hanabi (in preparation for Locke’s upcoming B-day) and they’re asking for things from both. I hope I don’t have to make two lists because I don’t think I could keep that straight.

Look at Shep defying gender roles.

Don’t make me sing Octopus’ Garden again Octavian…

Today in Hanabi

No visitors. Have to find Felicity a mole cricket. Vetoed being nicknamed “chickpea” by O’Hare. And accidentally agreed to visit Tia at 2:50 pm. I set my alarm, but it’s a funky time. Hopefully I make it.

Olive is working on a Christmas Room. She’s got a ways to go.

Addendum

I have another unexpected dentist appointment on Wednesday. (I broke my tooth that was waiting for a crown. I didn’t feel it, but wondered why my floss was having trouble going between the two teeth. Oops. So, getting fitted for that crown on Wednesday or something? Hope it all goes well. The dentist didn’t make a big deal of it, so I’m hoping it’s nothing too horrible. At least my teeth are clean even if one is broken…) Depending on how that goes I might just post Thursday instead.

Ugh. Can I relax yet?

P.S. I received a US copy of Animal Crossing New Leaf from Nintendo. Thanks, Nintendo!

P.P.S. Nintendo, your lack of updates on the official ACNL site is frustrating. Please hire me to update DLC notices. The website is still showing September and October DLC and those Pete deliveries are rude.

Stalk Market for Wednesday, November 13

We need More Dancing Happening

Usual past few days in Hanabi. I visited O’Hare because he really wanted me to see the travesty that is his house. House sucks? Dancing helps. Test looming? ditto.

The only thing dancing doesn’t help with? Snow.

We haven’t seen any of the nasty white stuff in Hanabi yet, but over in Quantico yesterday where it was, due to temporal anomalies, November 30th, there were flurries. Nothing stuck, but the time to break out your ugly sweaters is fast approaching.

I know they’ve had sweater Sunday going on for quite a while. I’m hoping to create a few ugly beauties for my townies to wear around town. Since I suck at designing anything I’m starting with this sweater tutorial from Animal Crossing Apparel. I’ll keep you posted when I get something suitably hideous to talk about.

Mmmm Spicy Curry

I also had Gulliver yesterday. He was obviously trying to get to India, but I sent him astray again for the tasty chocolate coin souvenir. I sure hope all his traveling is for pleasure and he’s not delivering black market kidneys or something. Because if so, they’re a little late…

Rude Drop In

I like a good townie visit as much as the next mayor, but it seems like they always barge in when I’m trying to turn a room into a masterpiece and not when I’m just sitting around in my house (not that I ever just sit around in my house).

Rooney was the offending townie. He got the message that I was kind of in the middle of something and only rambled a little bit before handing me a washer/dryer and leaving. Apparently the mayor stink eye is effective.

What was I working on? My sloppy, nasty, dirty basement/kitchen that no one in their right mind would want to eat in despite the cute kitchen items left over from Thanksgiving in Quantico. (I still need butter when Thanksgiving hits Hanabi)

As you can see, it’s a work in progress and the bottom half of it is still covered with balloons. I’m not in a rush to finish it mostly because I don’t have the furniture with which to finish it.

Today in Hanabi

Redd! The tease was back in town. This time his legitimate painting was the fine painting. I don’t need it in Hanabi or Kasen, so if anyone out there does need it, let me know.

fake

fake

fake

tease

I was surprised to see Redd because when I asked Booker he just mentioned that we had a camper.

I think our camper was pretty awesome, but I don’t know about the catchphrase “sweatband”. And I don’t even see a sweatband. Maybe a very vivid bandit mask.

cherries. We have lovely cherries and fall foliage right now.

See? pretty and delicious.

To Quantico we Go

I may have taken a little pre-vacation vacation over to Quantico today and done some pre-season fishing (I’m completely freaking out right now irl so a little cheating as stress relief is ok by me). It’s December 1st there so I went and sought out a few fish. I didn’t see a stringfish while I was there but I did find a pond smelt and a sea butterfly. I may also have checked out their camper. I’m so glad she’s not in Hanabi. She makes Kitt look tame.

Not gonna happen creepy demon kangaroo wearing a horrible shirt.

And that’s all for now. Last post before hiatus will be Friday. Don’t forget about me though. When I get back I think I’m going to do a giveaway for some RL items. I’ve got a duplicate Animal Crossing stylus and an extra copy of Hometown Story both of which could use good homes. I just have to figure out parameters for a giveaway. Random? Haikus? Most sloppy item donations wins? I dunno. The biggest question of all: Do I ship internationally? *shrug*

Ciao.

P.S. I received a US copy of Animal Crossing New Leaf from Nintendo. Thanks, Nintendo.